Charles G. Dahlgren

Charles Gustavus Dahlgren (13 August 1811-18 December 1888) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Gustavus Dahlgren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1811, the son of a Swedish consul and his American wife, the younger brother of John A. Dahlgren, and the uncle of Ulric Dahlgren. He served in the US Navy before moving to Mississippi and becoming a bank official in Natchez. When the American Civil War broke out, he raised two regiments for the Confederate States Army; his brother and nephew chose to side with the Union, making them his enemies. He was known to be short-tempered and opinionated, and he opposed President Jefferson Davis' nationalization of his regiments. After the war, he lost his plantation and moved to New Orleans to practice law, later moving to Nashville, to Virginia, and finally to New York City, where he died in 1888.